Month: May 2019

BBC RADIO 4 APPEAL TO RAISE PROFILE OF VCHP

Comic, poet and musician, John Hegley, is giving voice to Vision Care for Homeless People with a Radio 4 appeal to be broadcast on 16 June. He will be accompanied by the gentle tones of his Cavaquinho, a Portuguese mandolin. The Sunday appeal – repeated a few days later – is set to reach nearly […]

NURSE TURNS TO OPTIMAX FOR BETTER VISION

Reading the small print matters to us all, but for a nurse it is vital, as Sue Saunders found when trying to read medication labels for patients – “Contact lenses were no longer adequate and there was no way I was going back to thick glasses again. The Optimax assessment revealed that my vision was […]

OPTIMAX DIRECTOR PIONEERS NEW CATARACT TECHNIQUE

Cataract and refractive lens exchange surgery patients are less likely to be troubled by peripheral distortion thanks to a new surgical technique pioneered by Optimax. Mr Ilango, Optimax Medical Director, who has more than 25 years of experience in refractive lens exchange, believes the issue of negative dysphotopsia can now be significantly reduced by a […]